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This time "you're fired" is more than a Donald Trump catchphrase. Fox is turning the firing of real people from real jobs into prime-time entertainment starting this week.

The Cannes Film Festival is missing one of its biggest stars of this year's festival: Ryan Gosling.

Ray Manzarek, the keyboardist and founding member of The Doors who had a dramatic impact on rock `n' roll, has died. He was 74.

Seth MacFarlane is too busy to host the Oscars in 2014. The multitalented comedian says on Twitter that he "tried to make it work schedule-wise, but I need sleep.

Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Ron Chernow was honored by his peers this weekend and in turn shared a few tips about his craft. Chernow, 64, received the BIO award from the Biographers International Organization, a nonprofit established in 2010.

They battle it out weekly on the Billboard charts, and now they're competing at the Billboard Music Awards.

The magic and glamour of Cannes can be hard to spot on a day when rain is lashing the palm trees, roiling the gray Mediterranean and pooling in puddles along the Croisette.

David Beckham's pecs are at least as much a part of his brand as his kick; his brand of shoes ultimately more lucrative than the game he's giving up. Listed as the world's highest-earning athlete for 2013, Beckham's retirement from play still leaves him with valuable endorsements and unparalleled celebrity. The question is whether he can maintain it.

Sonic the Hedgehog is rolling with Nintendo.

Associated Press journalists open their notebooks at the Cannes Film Festival: LUHRMANN: JAY-Z KEY TO 'GATSBY' Not everyone is a fan of "The Great Gatsby'''s hip-hop flavored soundtrack, but director Baz Luhrmann says using modern music was essential to capturing the spirit of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel. "We wanted the film to feel like how it would have felt to read the novel in 1925," the director told reporters at the Cannes Film Festival, where the movie provided opening-night screen fireworks and red-carpet glamor. "Fitzgerald put music front and center in his novel.

Like millions of others, Leonardo DiCaprio read and loved "The Great Gatsby" as a teenager. But he says he only recently began to understand it.

A film that weaves together stories of the anguish and desperation of American and Filipino soldiers during the notorious Bataan Death March could have been shot on location in a large-scale production.

Barbara Walters is retiring.